Bury St. Edmunds: Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Economy
ISBN: 9780901286888 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The abbey of Bury St. Edmund's was one of the richest and most powerful of the monasteries of medieval England. The Libert of the Eight and a Half Hundreds, over which the abbot exercised the authority of Sherriff, covered all west Suffolk and survived as a separate administrative district until the country reorganisation of 1974. As its centre was an even more privileged area, the town and suburbs of Bury St. Edmunds, which grew up to service the abbey's worldly needs and remained under the abbot's absolute control; today it survives as the prosperous borough of Bury St. Edmunds. The abbey...
The abbey of Bury St. Edmund's was one of the richest and most powerful of the monasteries of medieval England. The Libert of the Eight and a Half Hun...
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Carlisle and Cumbria: Roman and Medieval Artitecture, Art and Archaeology
ISBN: 9781902653693 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Association's 2001 conference was held in Carlisle and concentrated on the Roman and medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city and county. Under the Romans, and with its position on Hadrian's Wall, Carlisle had the distinction of being the most north-westerly centre of Romanitas' in a vast empire. Later, the castle-building programme, initiated under William II, the establishment of the priory in 1123, followed by the See in 1133, marked Carlisle out as a key strategic bulwark against an ever-present threat from the Scots.
The majority of papers at the conference and... The Association's 2001 conference was held in Carlisle and concentrated on the Roman and medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city and co...
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The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society 400-1800
ISBN: 9780199226856 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. David Harrison rewrites their history from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution, providing new insights into many aspects of the subject. Looking at the role of bridges in the creation of a new road system, which was significantly different from its Roman predecessor and which largely survived until the...
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the gr...
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260,74 zł |
Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
ISBN: 9780061154300 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic? In this eminently fascinating work, author Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres and brilliantly explores how its construction--and the creation of other Gothic cathedrals--represented a profound and dramatic shift in... Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to... |
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Knights of the Cross: Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople & Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis
ISBN: 9781846778162 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rare insights into the chivalric age through the eyewitness accounts of two French knights
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis by Jean de Joinville Geoffrey de Villehardouin was an eminent French knight, who set out on the Fourth Crusade in 1199. Pivotally involved in events, including the routing the campaign via Constantinople, his important chronicle was written when his experiences were still fresh in his mind. After the conquest of Byzantium he became a military... Rare insights into the chivalric age through the eyewitness accounts of two French knights
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Knights of the Cross: Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople & Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis
ISBN: 9781846778155 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rare insights into the chivalric age through the eyewitness accounts of two French knights
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis by Jean de Joinville Geoffrey de Villehardouin was an eminent French knight, who set out on the Fourth Crusade in 1199. Pivotally involved in events, including the routing the campaign via Constantinople, his important chronicle was written when his experiences were still fresh in his mind. After the conquest of Byzantium he became a military... Rare insights into the chivalric age through the eyewitness accounts of two French knights
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91,39 zł |
Beyond Architecture
ISBN: 9781444646603 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work on Architecture is a fascinating read for any Architectural enthusiast or historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This early work on Architecture is a fascinating read for any Architectural enthusiast or historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those da...
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149,06 zł |
Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages: The Generosity of the Faithful
ISBN: 9789089640352 / Angielski / Twarda / 734 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves. Here we follow the historian on a fascinating examination of construction accounts and other sources - extant but never so minutely explored -
This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing ...
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800,10 zł |
The Bible of Amiens, Valle Crucis, The Art of England, The Pleasures of England (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781849028608 / Angielski / Twarda / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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168,29 zł |
Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History, 400-1400
ISBN: 9781599102023 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two leading American experts on the subject offer the first comprehensive English-language review of Naples' architecture and urban development from late antiquity to the high and late Middle Ages. William Tronzo treats the early Middle Ages, from the end of the western Roman Empire to the end of the Duchy, or from about 400 to 1139. He covers a range of topics, including the development of the city's urban fabric and chief monuments, including the catacombs, Sta. Restituta, the baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte, the forum area including San Paolo Maggiore and the early history of San...
Two leading American experts on the subject offer the first comprehensive English-language review of Naples' architecture and urban development from l...
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168,35 zł |
Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History, 400-1400
ISBN: 9781599102030 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two leading American experts on the subject offer the first comprehensive English-language review of Naples' architecture and urban development from late antiquity to the high and late Middle Ages. William Tronzo treats the early Middle Ages, from the end of the western Roman Empire to the end of the Duchy, or from about 400 to 1139. He covers a range of topics, including the development of the city's urban fabric and chief monuments, including the catacombs, Sta. Restituta, the baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte, the forum area including San Paolo Maggiore and the early history of San...
Two leading American experts on the subject offer the first comprehensive English-language review of Naples' architecture and urban development from l...
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120,25 zł |
Italian Piazza Transformed Hb: Parma in the Communal Age
ISBN: 9780271050706 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piazza Transformed, Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma's urban center in this tumultuous period by reconstructing the city's two most significant public spaces: its cathedral and communal squares. Treating the space of these piazzas as attentively as the buildings that shape their perimeters, she documents and discusses the evolution of each site from 1196, tracing their construction by opposing... During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheav... |
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527,80 zł |
Le Mystere Des Cathedrales Et L'Interpretation Esoterique Des Symboles Hermetiques Du Grand-Oeuvre
ISBN: 9781614271857 / Francuski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,82 zł |
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain
ISBN: 9780099558491 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, the author explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.
Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, the author explores many o...
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56,74 zł |
Gargoyles and Grotesques
ISBN: 9780747808312 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated, and fashioned as serpents' heads and other fanciful shapes. Today, the term gargoyle is also popularly applied to any carved decorative head or creature high up on a building and this book is an exploration of all of these enchanting features. Written by an academic and stonecarver, it is the perfect introduction to this fascinating subject. Gargoyles aims to provide a concise introduction to the stone... Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water ... |
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47,95 zł |
Windsor Castle And Its Environs
ISBN: 9781432667375 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,68 zł |
The Alhambra
ISBN: 9781861974877 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. This book examines its history.
The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword...
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Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350
ISBN: 9780300204001 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study locates what became known as the Decorated Style within patterns of commissioning, designing, and imagining whose origins lay in pre-Gothic art. By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in...
In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-break...
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213,36 zł |
The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World: Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in Early Islam
ISBN: 9781784530402 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent ones - is evident. In the visual arts, for example, Hamdouni Alami argues that the theory of human proportions which the Ikwan al-Safa propounded (something very similar to those of da Vinci), helped shape the evolution of the philosophy of...
In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society aro...
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608,08 zł |
The Spiritual Meaning of Rosslyn's Carvings
ISBN: 9780993051241 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique guide to Rosslyn Chapel just south of Edinburgh in Scotland acquaints the visitor well to the deeper meanings portrayed by the intricate carvings the chapel contains. Based on several years guiding visitors round the chapel before popular interest intensified, the author was the first external guide to Rosslyn. There is explicit information on several aspects of the chapel's carvings and architectural layout, including the Reshe, which is a vast body of sacred knowledge known by ancient cultures and utilized here by an inner core of Knights Templar. The Reshel is a dynamic system...
This unique guide to Rosslyn Chapel just south of Edinburgh in Scotland acquaints the visitor well to the deeper meanings portrayed by the intricate c...
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117,42 zł |